Somehow, Jim is still hanging on. 9 days with no food or water, yet the body continues to live. I spent most of last night with him. He woke up at 2am, and I sat on the bed talking with him. For the first time in over a week, he was lucid. After about 1/2 hour, he started having pain and agitation, so I called the nurse in. When she tried to give him his Ativan, we discovered that yet another vein had collapsed. It took the nurses over an hour to find another one.

Jim will be having a picc line inserted into his arm today. The nurses made an attempt to insert one yesterday, but he squirmed too much and pulled it out before they could secure it. Today he will go under light anesthesia so he's really relaxed and comfortable and not fighting the insertion.